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The successful deployment of this technique creates ripple effects that are difficult to quantify but impossible not to discern. In a typical college or professional basketball game, the teams combine to attempt well over a hundred shots. Over 95 percent…

When one mentions the phrase “special training” with regards to the martial ways, it usually conjures up Shaolin Monks standing on one leg on the top of a 10 foot tall post for hours on end or perhaps being blindfolded…

As far as I know, this film contains the only existing video/film footage of Choi Bong Young, the Korean master who brought our line of Ji Do Kwan to the United States in the 1960s. It was created by our school's…

Hearty congratulations to these worthy RVTKD students who were promoted as a result of satisfactory performance on our March 4 rank test: Second Gup Casey Krone Hamid Shojaei Third Gup Swan Sixth Gup Jose Loja Seventh Gup Wilmer Buri Andrew…

Andrew Benioff, Ee Dan I had recently moved to Hawaii and although I continued training in Tae Kwon Do, I had recently begun training in Aikido. I was rushing to make it to class on time from my job waiting…

Before continuing a series of posts interpreting the Five Tenets of Ji Do Kwan, I'd like to revisit my original post about the First Tenet, which I wrote shortly before receiving information that spurred an investigation into a more precise translation of our Five Tenets.…

One day last fall I got sick enough that I thought it was worth staying in bed to recover, rather than forcing myself through the day and prolonging it. Instead of reading or listening to music to pass the day, I…

Yesterday I was asked an interesting question: what do you think about when learning a new form? I was a little puzzled but also intrigued, having never given that part of the process much thought. The answer seems easy enough: listen…

Almost all Tae Kwon Do classes open with warm-ups and stretching, but RVTKD's stretching probably lasts longer than most martial arts schools. At thirty minutes, working our way methodically through most muscle groups in both isometric and dynamic variations, it's almost like…

Our school's primary focus is evening Tae Kwon Do classes for adults in Northampton and Florence, Massachusetts. We also offer a Saturday morning class and periodic RAD women's self defense classes at our home dojang in Florence.